Their fascination with the 1970s has continued to this day — they describe the era as a period in modern history in which various contemporary ideologies of the left and the right fought their most decisive battles...
The 1970s were no different in Pakistan as well...
LARKANA: Activists of Pakistan Peoples Party wore black armbands and hoisted black flags on party offices across the province on Wednesday to observe a ‘black day’ in condemnation of Gen Ziaul Haq’s overthrow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s elected government on July 5, 1977...
He was eliminated because he succeeded in uniting Islamic countries and making Pakistan a nuclear state, they said...
Dr Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University in the US, with a joint appointment at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy and Law...
’ She is well known for her seminal book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the demand for Pakistan, The Sole Spokesman...
Gen Zia drags Pakistan into the jihad sponsored by the Americans and SaudisMay 26, 1980Establishment of Federal Shariat Court is announcedDecember 19, 1984Zia holds referendum on ‘Islamisation’ which will give him five more years at the helm...
These include the Prohibition Order and the Zina Ordinance as well as separate laws for amputation for theft and punishment by whippingMarch 18, 1982Changes introduced to the Pakistan Penal...
LARKANA: Activists of Pakistan Peoples Party and PPP-SB took out rallies and held demonstrations across the province on Sunday to observe July 5 as a ‘Black Day’, the day when Gen Ziaul Haq overthrew democratically elected government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and imposed martial law...
The midnight military coup on July 5, 1977, would always be remembered in the history of Pakistan as a black day when the unanimously passed constitution...
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday observed the 1977 military coup anniversary as a ‘black day’ across Sindh with its workers wearing black armbands and holding demonstrations and rallies in the streets of all cities and towns of the province, like other parts of the country...
A loarge number of activists took part in a programme held at the Larkana district PPP office at Kennedy Market to condemn the overthrow of the...
“1977 or 1999?” one friend asked me, elaborating that, in his view, the former situation seemed more likely after Imran Khan’s pointed accusations because it was becoming clear that such a spiral would only leave one of the two men standing at the end of the fight...
Editorial: Pakistan, for the first time in recent memory, seems to be flirting dangerously with civil warWhereas his populist politics may have initially ridden the wave...
RAMAZAN of 1947 also fell in the long and thirsty days of the subcontinental summer...
The collective act of fasting paralleled at the time the collective act of waiting, the patient longing for dusk, a metaphor for the collective longing for a country, for the creation of Pakistan...
The Ramazan of 1947 was also hot and humid...
Shouldn’t be we ashamed that even after 68 years of independence we are unable to provide electricity and water to our people? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that more than half of our population has no access to potable water and sanitation? Shouldn’t we be ashamed that millions of our children don’t go to schools and most of the schools in rural areas are without teachers, roofs, furniture,...
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the federal government to submit details of Toshakhana gifts received by political rulers and bureaucrats from foreign dignitaries since the creation of Pakistan...
The court directed the government to submit the details by January 16 and also sought records pertaining to the purchase of these assets since 1947...
Marlon James’s Booker prizewinning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings is a fantastic attempt at recounting the attack on Marley through a variety of eccentric, rowdy and colourful characters that provide, to a reasonable extent, a clear, albeit bloody, insight into the violence-stricken Jamaica of the 1970s and ’80s (the story moves further ahead)...
Here’s how A Brief History of Seven Killings moves into first gear by virtue of...
Sociologists also trace the history of Karachi’s ethnic conflagarations to the 1960s after then president Gen Ayub Khan initiated a plan to settle Pakhtuns — his own ethnic group — in the city...
Military dictator Gen Zia (1977-88) thought that it was because of a few miscreants who wanted to exploit the situation to their political ends but he was wrong...
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in country's history the Foreign Office organised a three-day exhibition reflecting Pakistan's ancient culture and civilisation which attracted a large number of history lovers along with diplomats...
The exhibition titled 'Ancient Pakistan' is showcasing artifacts and relics from ancient civilisations belonging to the region including Gandhara, Harappa, Mehrgarh and Moen-Jo-Daro...
ISLAMABAD: A film screened at the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS) on Tuesday took viewers through the thousands of years of spiritual history of the land where Pakistan stands today...
The film titled ‘The Story of a Banyan Tree: 9,000 Years of Pluralistic Heritage in Pakistan’ was conceptualised by Dr Kamran Ahmed and based on his research...
Cricket commentator and former Test captain Ramiz Raja has described Pakistan's hammering at the hands of Bangladesh as "embarrassing" and the "lowest point in our international history"...
In an interview with ESPNCricinfo, Ramiz Raja expressed his disappointment in the "lack of direction" and the lack of "fresh ideas" from the Pakistan Cricket Board which had rendered the national cricket team as a "rudderless ship"...